...R. Hesp; I. Chanarin; Christine E. Tait 1. Serial measurements of serum potassium and total-body potassium were made on eighteen patients with megaloblastic anaemia before the start of therapy and during the period of recovery. 2. In those patients who presented with an initial packed cell volume...

... megaloblastic anaemia, methylmalonic aciduria and abnormal homocysteine metabolism resulting from an inborn error in the metabolism of cobalamins. She died at the age of 7 years. At autopsy there was pulmonary fibrosis and the brain showed lesions typical of those seen in subacute combined degeneration...